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cross campus Hoppin’ birthday. Yesterday would have been alumna Grace Hopper’s GRD ’30 109th birthday. Hopper, who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar in 1928 and earned her master’s degree from Yale in 1930, is best known for her contributions to the field of computer science. She is credited with popularizing the term “debugging.”

“Yale, not jail.” At a town hall in Iowa, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 took a question from a voter wearing a Yale hat. Before she answered his question, Clinton made a joke about attending the Yale Law School saying, “I’ve spent time there. That was Yale, not jail! He and I, we have this in common.”

An unbeatable combo.

Secretary of State John Kerry ’66 huddled with actor Leonardo DiCaprio to discuss solutions for climate change in Paris this week.

DiCaprio attended the COP21 conference in France as the U.N. messenger of peace for the climate. The Yale Student Environmental Coalition also sent a delegation of two students to the conference.

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Investigations yield no disciplinary action By monica wang and joey ye Staff reporters After closing two investigations into recent racially charged campus controversies, Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway announced in a collegewide email Wednesday that no disciplinary action will be taken against any student or student group involved.

One investigation, led by Dean of Student Engagement Burgwell Howard in conjunction with a representative from the Office for Equal Opportunity Programs, examined the circumstances surrounding an allegedly “white girls only” entrance policy to an Oct. 30 party at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. The other focused on allegations that student demonstrators spat on attendees of a Nov. 6 William F. Buckley, Jr. conference about free speech. Although the Yale College Dean’s Office will not pursue any formal disciplinary action following either investigation, Holloway wrote that the campuswide significance of both events led him to share details of the investigations.

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Students on discrimination, campus climate

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n Nov. 30, the News distributed a survey to all undergraduates about racial climate on campus and University President Peter Salovey’s recent policy responses. A comprehensive data set will be published online on Friday. david shimer reports.

THE SAE INVESTIGATION

In his email, Holloway wrote that Howard’s investigation of SAE, which consisted of interviews with party guests and SAE members, found “no evidence of systematic discrimination against people of color.” Before the party became crowded, all students —

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The administration found no evidence of systematic racial discrimination at an Oct. 30 SAE party.

In the survey, students had the option of selecting one or more choices to represent their ethnic backgrounds. The ethnic breakdown of the 1,485 respondents very closely matches that of the student body as a whole. According to the Office of Institutional Research, at Yale, 72 percent of students identify as White and Other, 20 percent as Asian, 9 percent as Black and 9 percent as Hispanic; of survey respondents, 67 percent identified as Caucasian, 20 percent as Asian, 9 percent as Black and 12 percent as Hispanic.

When recounting where and from whom they had experienced racial discrimination at Yale, affected students had the ability submit multiple responses. The survey data consee climate page 4

The News says congrats. In

an article published yesterday, the Harvard Crimson board announced that, after over 130 issues, it would turn over to welcome a new class of editors. As we here at 202 York St. prepare to publish our last issue before winter break tomorrow, we wish the former Crimson editors the best in their future endeavors.

One fish, two fish. Barracuda

Bistro & Bar celebrates its anniversary with a birthday bash tonight at 8 p.m. The bar, which sits at the intersection of Park and Chapel Streets, has attracted students with special events and happy hour deals since its opening one year ago.

Go for the free appetizers, stay for performances by Cuban band Goza.

The art of construction. The

Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design will co-host a holiday-themed study break with the Yale Society of Women Engineers tonight at 7 p.m. in the Becton Center. The event will feature gingerbread-house making and Christmas music.

Box 63 days of Christmas.

Popular New Haven bar Box 63 invites students to celebrate one last time before finals at their annual Christmas dance party, “The Nightmare Before Box 63 Stole Christmas.” Enjoy drink specials and live music on Friday night from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. this day in yale history

1970 University Chief of Police advises students to take additional safety precautions after receiving reports of one instance of sexual assault and two instances of attempted sexual assault on campus.

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Furnished short term units to begin construction By jiahui hu Staff reporter Thousands of Yale students and visitors as well as New Haven professionals will soon be able to enjoy the city’s first fully furnished short-term apartment complex.

Developer MOD Equities plans to begin construction this spring

on a new complex at the intersection of High and George that will house 115 with short-term leases, lasting for periods as short as one day or as long as one year.

The complex, which will be built on the current site of Avis Car Rental, will open around spring 2017, said MOD Equities Principal Josef Feldman. The fully furnished, short-term units will

Reduction may not solve summer woes By jon victor staff reporter De s p i te recently announced cuts to the summer student income contribution, summer earnings that students on financial aid are expected to put toward their tuition, students claim that the changes do not adequately address the divergent Yale experiences of wealthy students as opposed to those with high financial need.

In January, a Yale College Council report on financial aid policy spoke to the division that exists on campus between students who are free to pursue extracurriculars and other interests with their free time, and those who must work on-campus jobs to help finance their Yale educations. The changes announced on Monday — which included a $1,350 reduction in the student summer income contribution for those with the highest need and a $450 decrease for all other students — were in direct response to the YCC report and other student activism, according to Dean

of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan and Director of Financial Aid Caesar Storlazzi, who ran the meeting. Students interviewed said the changes may be a start toward a lofty goal of the complete elimination of the student effort — the combination of the summer student income contribution and earnings from a term-time job. But they also said an inequality lingers that has been perpetuated by the student summer income contribution and the termtime student employment contribution, which has remained unchanged from its current value of $3,350 for upperclassmen. Despite the lower summer expectation, students said financial aid recipients will still be limited in their summer opportunities, often forgoing unpaid internships that may be more rewarding.

“With the proposed changes, students still have to decide between participating in an unpaid internship experience of their choice and finding a sumsee financial aid page 4

meet the needs of thousands of Yale students and visitors who spend short periods of time in the city, said Erin Gustafson, senior advisor at the Yale Office of International Students and Scholars.

“Every year Yale hosts faculty, lecturers, researchers and postdocs from around the world,” she said. “These scholars come to

campus for short stays, anywhere from a few months to a year or two, and arrive at all times of the year in need of affordable shortterm housing.”

Feldman said he and his brother Jacob Feldman began outlining plans for the new building after hearing frustrations from tenants at other properties in the city about having

to buy furniture for short-term stays. These tenants — many of whom were Yale visitors or medical students completing training programs at Yale-New Haven Hospital — often had to go through the cumbersome process of choosing and buying furniture, only to sell it months later. see housing page 6

No renovations coming for Yale Bowl

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Harvard Stadium had a bubble roof installed in 2007, a year after its grass field was replaced with artificial turf.

By Daniela Brighenti Staff Reporter Despite rumors earlier this semester that the Yale Bowl would see significant upgrades this football offseason, the 101-year-old facility will remain unchanged for the time being.

In August, football head

coach Tony Reno told the Hartford Courant that a renovation was being planned to add artificial turf and a 65-foot-high protective bubble roof to the Bowl, a temporary structure that would be installed in the winter months to allow multiple Yale teams to practice indoors.

But four months later, this plan

is no longer under consideration, according to Associate Athletics Director and Sports Publicity Director Steve Conn.

The administration continues to explore the possibility of utilizing additional indoor training facilities elsewhere, Conn said. see yale bowl page 4

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The duck syndrome I

magine you are a duck. Seriously, imagine it. Imagine Yale as a pond, a big, big pond.

Turn your little duck-head, and look with your little duck-eyes.

Ducks paddle around you. You nod at one duck, argue with another in section. All day, on Yale Pond, your webbed duckfeet paddle beneath you.

One day, right before reading week, you look around at all the other ducks. How are they so serene, gliding through the water? That duck in the gym, barely sweating in her Lululemon top. Or that duck in the library, who nods as he types at a standing desk. Or the duck who gets blackout all weekend and then Amtraks to D.C. for a quick job interview on Monday. Look at them gliding through Yale Pond, and then back down at your webbed duck-feet beating furiously beneath you. You sigh a big duck sigh. How are these ducks so calm, yet so efficient?

The answer: The water conceals the duck armada’s feet paddling beneath the surface.

And they’re paddling just like you.

The fable of the ducks on Yale Pond — imparted to me early freshman year by a FroCo — recasts the “Stanford Duck Syndrome,” a term coined at this West-Coast Yale with very similar ducks to describe campus stress culture. The syndrome focuses on the individual: “On the surface we’re calm and composed, even on top of things. Just below it we are working our butts off and kicking as hard as we can just to stay afloat.” Many adolescent psychologists use “Duck Syndrome” to better understand campus stress, depression and anxiety common among elite overachievers like us. The New York Times mentioned the Duck Syndrome in their 2015 piece “Suicide on Campus and the Pressure of Perfection,” a reflection on campus suicides at elite schools, such as the University of Pennsylvania.

Perfection: That’s the key.

At Stanford, Penn or Yale, stress comes from our social surroundings and the perceived perfection of our peers.

We compare ourselves to one another, an inescapable vestigial organ of the “survival of the fittest” environment in which we were raised. It’s more prominent here, both because we believe Yale’s admissions committee granted us, specifically us, entry to this wonderful pond, and also because we believe the world will compare our resumes to each other upon graduation.

Upon arriving, many freshmen unintentionally maneuver social interactions competitively, assessing peers as social competition rather than as friends.

After leaving here, it will not abate; look only to Yale alumni metrics on LinkedIn. Not only are many of us trying to enter the same sectors, we’re often joining the same companies: Google, Goldman Sachs and McKinsey place first, second and third.

Not to be tongue-in-beak, but it’s a Duck-Eat-Duck world out there.

Although proponents of the pond metaphor have the best intentions, they seek to assuage this problem by focusing on superficial solutions. Instead of comparing CVs, compare internal states! Think of the ducks around you — even if they seem better annotated, better showered, better ‘liked’ on Instagram, they’re just as tired, uncertain and worried as you. You just don’t know because you can’t see them paddling. Right?

Hypothetically, considering the entire pond helps us recognize each other’s internal states.

But this perspective creates an environment of even more comparisons, focusing on perceived insecurities and weaknesses rather than our own purported strength. Pond-scoping hurts only us, rotting our stress into snark. Focusing on the pond covers social stress, but does none of the heavy lifting required to actually help us thrive.

Let’s return to the duck. In describing the duck as “kicking as hard as we can to stay afloat,” Stanford students tried, bless their hearts, but missed a fundamental ornithological point.

Ducks do not need to kick to stay afloat. Instead, they float naturally, their hollow bones, little air sacs, the oil they secrete rendering the duck buoyant. The duck does not need to paddle to float.

It just needs to be, and its body will do the rest.

Whatever natural buoyancy you have, remember that, and separate your self-worth from self-promotion. For some of us, that internal confidence comes from our faith or religious beliefs. For a friend of mine, it’s the conviction in her observational ability to describe the world around her. For another, it’s his music. We each have unflinching pillars in our lives, little Combray steeples around which we orient our meaning.

Call it what you will — hollow bones and oil-secreting glands, perhaps — but we’re all going to be just fine. This is Yale Pond, after all, one of the most wellregarded ponds that delivers one of the best duck-educations in the entire world. Just don’t let stress quack you up.

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guest columnist daniel tenreiro-braschi

Mastering freedom H

arvard and Princeton have both officially abolished the title of “master” for the heads of their residential houses, the former caving to students’ demands, the latter preempting expected calls for change. People across the country know the narrative by now. The term “master,” some argue, carries historical baggage that places an unjust burden on students of color. Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana explained in an email to the student body, “The desire to change this title has taken place over time and has been a thoughtful one, rooted in a broad effort to ensure that the college’s rhetoric, expectations and practices around our historically unique roles reflects and serves the 21st-century needs of residential student life.”

Let’s break down Khurana’s statement. He calls Harvard’s “roles” (a rather unnecessary pluralization) “historically unique.”

This claim, though it might sate the egos of our Cambridge counterparts, is patently false. Neither Harvard, nor Princeton, nor any single institution of higher education inhabits a historically unique position on its own. In fact, Harvard and similar institutions are part of a long and rich tradition of scholarship dating back nearly a thousand years. The first university was established in Bologna in 1088. Since then, universities have been citadels of truth where those

seeking knowledge could engage in earnest, worthwhile inquiry.

The characteristic that distinguished the University of Bologna from other educational institutions — what made it historically unique — was the privilege it conferred upon intellectuals.

In 1158, Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa issued the Authentica Habita, which gave scholars the same rights and legal immunities as the clergy. The university system gave academics a haven in which they could work outside of the confines of society. It is from this tradition, carried on by universities around the world, that our institutions adopted the title “master.” Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway explained that this title is “nothing more than a legacy of the British Oxbridge system that Yale was blatantly trying to emulate when it created the residential college system in the early 1930s.” Harvard, Yale and other universities inherited their roles: the facilitators of honest academic inquiry away from the whims of society.

Khurana goes on to assert that the college must serve the “needs of residential student life.” Must it? In the 1960s, college students clamored to reform what they saw as an antiquated in loco parentis model of higher education. Before then, universities looked after their students carefully, imposing curfews, mandatory religious

services and sexual restrictions.

Harvard professor of educational studies Phillip Lee explains, “the in loco parentis doctrine allowed universities to exercise great discretion in developing the ‘character’ of their students without respect to their students’ constitutional rights.” Eventually, courts had to step in to restore university students’ freedoms.

After this model changed, universities became places of transgression and subversion. Without administrators obstructing the free expression of ideas, students gained the ability to explore different intellectual, spiritual and sexual frontiers. During the civil rights movement, colleges were a haven for the expression of thenradical ideas that came to the fore because of the culture of openness provided by college campuses.

Indeed, the freedom afforded to students in the 1960s is one reason we have such a diverse student body at Yale today.

The idea of studying at a free and open university excited me during high school. I came to Yale looking not only to engage in serious intellectual discourse, but also to see new things, to be exposed to ideas and people that discomfited and changed me. Instead, I have found an intellectually sterile environment. Afraid to offend others, students toe the line drawn by political correctness. Facing immense pressure to succeed, we

shy away from danger and novelty.

The sheltered, “safe” environment at Yale is not unlike that of most high schools in America: We do our homework, we partake in extracurriculars and we try to have fun on weekends. But shouldn’t college be about more than that?

In the email back in August that started this whole kerfuffle, Pierson College Master — yes, I still call him master — Stephen Davis claimed, “There should be no context in our society or in our university in which an African-American student, professor or staff member — or any person, for that matter — should be asked to call anyone ‘master.’” In saying this, Davis not only ignores the history and context of the title, but also sets a dangerous precedent of administrators operating as caretakers.

When a protester told Silliman College Master — yes, Master — Nicholas Christakis that the purpose of the residential college was to create a home and not an intellectual space, I understood her point. But perhaps we are at Yale in order not to have a home. Perhaps the most unique opportunity Yale offers us is a space free from societal mores, distinctly suited to radical self-expression, subversive politics and offensive ideas.

Daniel Tenreiro-Braschi is a freshman in Ezra Stiles College.

Contact him at daniel.tenreiro-braschi@yale.edu .

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Why ethnic studies matters

amelia jane nierenberg is a sophomore in Timothy Dwight College. Contact her at amelia.nierenberg@yale.edu .

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n my application to Yale in the fall of 2011, I wrote my Why Yale 50-word statement about Yale’s ethnic studies program: “I am most intrigued by the ethnicity, race and migration major, which resonates with my interest in racial injustice and civil rights.

It affords one the unique opportunity for interdisciplinary, historical, contemporary and comparative study and research.” Four years later, these words still ring true. As a senior double-majoring in ER&M and political science, I am extremely grateful for interdisciplinary, historical and contemporary ethnic studies — courses that analyze and unpack the causes and consequences of prejudice and ethnic conflict in the U.S. and globally. My experience in ER&M has ensured that I will leave Yale with critical knowledge of the human experience.

As a white Jewish female from a privileged town outside of Boston, I am often met by critical, quizzical looks when I share my major with fellow Yalies — or anyone else, for that matter. I am constantly asked to explain the themes and mechanics of the ER&M major and my reasons for choosing it. In preparing for

post-graduate fellowships and job opportunities this fall, I was explicitly advised that those who have graduated from a European university system, for example, might consider my major to be diffuse and not sufficiently intellectual — not a “serious” discipline.

Yet, ethnic studies is rigorous and vital. The Yale administration is beginning to come to this realization and commit more resources to the discipline. President Peter Salovey included ethnic studies as a crucial tenet in the initiatives he announced on Nov. 17 in his campuswide email. Earlier this week, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler and Dean of Yale College Jonathan Holloway emailed students to highlight courses offered next term that “engage thoughtfully with issues of identity.”

But ethnic studies is more than the study of “social identity” that Salovey, Gendler and Holloway suggest. As Lok Siu, a professor of ethnic studies at Berkeley, explains, ethnic studies examines power and not merely identity.

According to Siu, the heart of ethnic studies lies in examining processes of marginalization and the reproduction of power and social

inequality globally.

Critics argue that ethnic studies does not inform students of the human experience. But it is precisely the power structures within our society that deeply impact all lives.

The knowledge I have gained in ethnic studies classes at Yale has broadened my understanding of what it means to be human and the ways in which law and policy interact with that experience.

Through reading Audre Lorde’s words, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own,” I have learned how my own life experiences connect me to those of differing backgrounds.

Learning about the court case DeGraffenreid v. General Motors (1977) in “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex,” by Kimberlé Crenshaw, I have come to understand how legal systems often filter lived experience through a monolithic, privileged lens. Probing the purpose of torture in Anne McClintock’s “Paranoid Empire” and recognizing the lack of black agency in Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow,” I have engaged in thoughtful critiques of race relations and discriminatory policies in the U.S.

and abroad.

Political systems do not exist in a vacuum and cannot be studied as such. Understanding power dynamics and the process of marginalization is critical to understanding politics. We must recognize the potential for political systems to entrench inequality.

We cannot merely wait to ask “general questions” about the role of politics and law in human life, before moving onto “secondary” questions about race and identity. That division does not exist. One needs only to listen to presidential candidate Donald Trump’s political rhetoric to realize the immense danger that will result if we continue to ignore how politics disparately affects those of minority ethnicity, race and religion. Asserting that issues of ethnicity are “for them” will only serve to divide. These issues concern us all. It is only when we can learn our shared history and the power dynamics that have molded it, when we recognize ethnic studies as an issue of humans qua humans, that we can hope to move forward. gina starfield is a senior in Saybrook College. Contact her at gina.starfield@yale.edu .

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“The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”

Abraham Maslow American psychologist

Corrections wednesday, dec. 9

A previous version of the article “OCS introduces more support for arts” misstated the date of OCS’ upcoming “Artist & the Industry” panel.

A previous version of the article “After donation, CS Department seeks further support” incorrectly stated the date of a donation to Harvard’s computer science department. It also misidentified computer science as the seventh most popular major at Yale; in fact, it is the sixth.

Wellness Champions unveiled By joey ye Staff reporter Four years after the successful introduction of the Communication and Consent Educators program, a group of undergraduate student employees who work to foster a healthy sexual climate on campus, the University is introducing a similar program to tackle issues of mental health and wellbeing among Yale students.

The new initiative, branded the Peer Wellness Champions program, was announced by the Yale College Council Wednesday evening in an email to all undergraduates. Run by the Office of the Vice President for Student Life, it is designed to help students navigate Yale’s wellness resources, including those related to mental health. The program will accept five undergraduates and five graduate and professional students for the spring, and the new hires will assist fellow students in thinking “deeply about individual and collective wellness,” the email said.

Director of LGBTQ Resources Maria Trumpler GRD ’92, who is in charge of the project, said that while she has some plans for the program, the students selected for its inaugural class will play a large role in determining its final scope.

“What the Peer Wellness Champions will really emerge during the semester, and this first group of people will really help shape that,” Trumpler said. “[This program] is really building off of people who are thinking on wellness and giving them an opportunity to not be alone in it.”

The program will have a strong model to copy: The Yale College Dean’s Office currently employs 49 undergraduates as CCEs to host workshops and trainings on the topics of sexual misconduct and social climate. Like the CCEs, the Champions will engage with students through individual conversations and panels as well as address broader systemic issues, according to the Champions program’s website. The position will be paid and participants are required to attend a daylong training in January in addition to committing two to three hours per week.

Additionally, just as the CCEs are assigned to specific residential colleges, Trumpler said, the Champions program will eventually expand to two liaisons per residential college and professional school. But the first iteration will be done on a smaller scale due to the large financial cost, she said, although she did not provide further details about the program’s expected price tag.

Part of the Champions’ responsibilities will include becoming well-versed in Yale’s many support systems for self-

care, which are listed on a new website that was unveiled by University Secretary and Vice President for Student Life Kimberly Goff-Crews in September. The website is part of a larger push on campus to make mental health resources more accessible and transparent to students.

Trumpler said the first cohort will consist of participants who have unique ideas regarding the meaning of wellness along with the different aspects of wellness in which students might be interested. She added that Champions should be able to consider all of the different obstacles that may bar students from pursuing wellness goals or seeking help.

“There’s a complex hiring process, especially because it’s paid and it’s a student job,” YCC President Joe English ’17 said. “I would imagine this will help us identify other gaps in Yale’s wellness and mental health resources and can inform future collaborations with the Office of the Vice President.”

The idea for the initiative is not entirely new. Last semester, YCC representative Joseph Cornett ’17 began developing a similar project called “Mental Health Fellows,” which would help connect students to the network of existing campus mental health resources.

But when YCC representatives approached the administration with the idea, administrators said they were already in the midst of developing a similar project. The YCC and administrators joined together, and the Wellness Champions was the result, according to YCC University Services Director Megan Ruan ’17. Ruan added that the Champions will encompass a broader range of roles than was originally intended for the Mental Health Fellows, as they will address issues of general wellness that extend beyond just mental health.

Ruan said the YCC’s goal is to help students solve mental health problems in the long run. By targeting wellness in general instead of focusing on only mental health specifically, the Wellness Champions will be able to help students with a wider variety of issues, YCC Vice President Maddie Bauer ’17 said.

“I think there are a lot of students, both graduate and undergraduate, who think about their own wellbeing and worry that they may not be doing enough for it,” Trumpler said. “The idea of the Peer Wellness Champions is that they’re peers, and they can help think about ways to get around barriers keeping you from what you want.”

The application period for Peer Wellness Champions will close on Monday.

Contact joey ye at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

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Admin structure slows policy decisions By david shimer staff reporter The structure of the Yale Corporation and University President Peter Salovey’s decision-making model may help explain Yale’s relatively slow progress in deciding on the title “master” as well as a host of other high-profile issues.

The Yale Corporation — the governing board and policymaking body for Yale — has final jurisdiction over the naming of the two new residential colleges, the potential renaming of Calhoun College and whether to remove the title “master” from the University bylaws. The Corporation, whose next official meeting is in February, has yet to reach a decision on any of these debates. While Salovey has the ability to call a special Corporation meeting and expedite the decision-making process, Senior Advisor to the President Martha Highsmith said he has not discussed doing so. Rather, Salovey has prioritized outreach to the Yale community and discussion amongst the Corporation that stretches across several months, he said.

“In decisions that involve the Corporation that have long-lasting impact on the institution, the Corporation often likes to talk about them at multiple meetings before they make a final decision, and there are only five meetings each year,” Salovey said.

“I think anything having to do with residential colleges at Yale is so fundamental to the emotional attachment that students have to this place that it tends to be deeply considered.”

Salovey said the goal of the Corporation is to reach a consensus through “repeated reflection,” which includes several conversations on the same issue.

Still, Sam Chauncey ’57 — who served as University secretary in the 1960s and 1970s — said while it is reason-

able for Salovey to take time to solicit the opinions from the Yale community, he could call for more frequent meetings amongst the Corporation, either in person or electronically, to speed up the process.

“Given modern communication methods, it is possible for the Corporation to make a decision as rapidly as the president wants it made,” Chauncey said.

Corporation Senior Fellow Margaret Marshall LAW ’76 did not respond to request for comment.

Highsmith said there is precedent for holding special Corporation sessions, noting that such a meeting took place to discuss “next steps” after former University President Richard Levin announced his retirement. But the possibility of holding a special meeting to discuss current issues has not been discussed, she said.

Highsmith added that it takes time for the University to gather input from the Yale community and that external pressure — such as Harvard and Princeton’s recent removal of the master title — should not impede upon that process.

“This is a time to act with all deliberate speed, and that means to act as quickly as we can but in a deliberative fashion that includes consultations with the community,” she said.

“There’s some urgency around decision making now, but that urgency doesn’t override the need for involving the community in serious reflection.

These are complicated issues.”

Because the Corporation does not face any “hard deadlines,” University Spokesman Tom Conroy said its members can take their time in deliberating, “to a certain degree.”

On the title of master, Salovey said he expects Corporation members to seriously consider the opinions of Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway, the Council of Masters and himself, as well as an analysis of possible options pre-

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The Yale Corporation has final jurisdiction over the naming of the new colleges and the potential renaming of Calhoun. pared by an officer or dean.

Still, Salovey said the Corporation will also discuss the issue independently and has the final say.

“They absolutely have the authority to take a different position,” Salovey said.

On the naming of the two new colleges, Salovey said University leaders would present the Corporation with 20 to 25 possibilities that stem from outreach efforts to the Yale community.

Salovey added that the naming process demonstrates the consensus model of repeated reflection and why that model takes time.

“The corporation will take

[the 20 to 25] names and have a series of conversations at different meetings, so members could think between meetings and might even ask for scenarios to be written around names that weren’t on the original list,” he said. “The idea has been we will have as many conversations as it takes to get to an equilibrium. I much prefer, if at all possible, for the Corporation to move toward names they are excited about as a group rather than simply asking people to vote.”

The Corporation has 19 members.

Contact david shimer at david.shimer@yale.edu .

Local politicians seek fresh faces By michelle liu Staff reporter Young politicians are a hot commodity in Connecticut this year.

After a series of Republican wins at the municipal level in November, West Hartford Democratic Town Committee member Kiernan MajerusCollins published an op-ed in CT News Junkie urging state Democrats to recruit more young leaders to hold office.

He wrote that it is important for Democrats to garner support from younger voters because the Republican Party has already ramped up its efforts to gain their vote in the state. His request seems to have taken hold with 27-yearold Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr., who announced Tuesday that he has been named Connecticut state director of the Young Elected Officials Network, a nonpartisan program that supports progressive local, state and national leaders aged 35 and under. In his new position, he will connect young elected officials to resources for professional development and policy assistance.

“There are many challenges that we are facing across the state,” Brackeen said. “It certainly won’t hurt to bring folks together in a collaborative way to find progressive solutions.”

Brackeen was first elected as Ward 26 alder in 2013 when he was just 25, becoming the ward’s youngest and first African-American alder. Though Brackeen — a YEO Network member since January 2014 — ran uncontested for his second term last month, other Democrats did not fare as well. In Trumbull, Democratic candidate for first selectman Vicki Tesoro failed to unseat the incumbent Republican Tim Herbst. On the same day, GOP New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart fended off Democratic challenger John McNamara.

Majerus-Collins, a student at Bates College, argued in his November op-ed that the wins of these two “young Republicans with a future” are proof that state Republicans recognize the value of these rising stars. Connecticut Republicans have also prioritized recruiting young voters, Majerus-Collins wrote.

Groups like the YEO Network allow young elected officials to work on issues of particular importance to younger generations, such as LGBT rights, environmental protection and criminal justice reform, Majerus-Collins told the News. He added that young voters have a distinct perspective from older voters in the electorate on such issues.

Experts and lawmakers interviewed identified student debt and college affordability as other key concerns for young lawmakers and their constituents on both sides of the aisle.

Republican Waterbury Alder Stephanie Cummings, who was elected to her first term in 2013 at age 26, said many young professionals are moving out of her city. As a working millennial, herself, she said, her experience makes her more attuned to the problems her constituents face. Cummings said this perspective allows her to come up with solutions that older officials might not consider.

“While I may not have [the life experiences of older officials], this is what I bring to the table,” Cummings said.

“You don’t want the table to be full of the same, exact experiences.”

Former Ward 1 alder candidate Fish Stark ’17 said any legislative body, including local ones like the Board of Alders, requires a diversity of ages in order to work most effectively. Stark added that young people have historically catalyzed change in their

political parties.

Stark, who received an endorsement from Brackeen in the Ward 1 race this fall, said the current Westville alder will lift the voices of young people in and around New Haven.

Brackeen is interested in discussing student loans and the economy in a way that older officials are not, Stark said.

As a community organizer for pro-charter school education nonprofit Connecticut Coalition for Achievement Now, Brackeen is suited to build a coalition of young leaders in his work for the YEO Network, Stark said.

For her part, Cummings has found a different support system through the Connecticut Young Republicans. The political organization bands her and other politicians — like state Rep. Aundré Bumgardner, the General Assembly’s youngest lawmaker at age 21 — into a network where they can collaborate and swap campaign strategy ideas, she said.

Gary Rose, chairman of the Department of Government and Politics at Sacred Heart University, said he is not sure if either party can effectively connect to young people in the state because they may not articulate the issues important to these voters.

But Rose also noted a handful of exceptions to the rule.

For example, J.R. Romano, the Republicans’ new state party chairman, has been a dynamic force in reaching out to Connecticut’s student population, Rose said.

Connecticut Democrats have their up-and-comers as well, Majerus-Collins wrote in his November op-ed. Although Republican Ken Cockanye won the mayoral race in Bristol, voters also re-elected 23-year-old Democratic Councilor Calvin Brown. Majerus-Collins also named state senators like majority whip Mae Flexer and Gary Winfield of New Haven.

Both Democrats and Republicans must actively engage more young people to ensure that they enter politics, Rose said. Young municipal leaders can draw other young people into the process by serving as examples, he said.

“Younger people need to see people like first selectmen, town councilmen and mayors,” Rose said. “For people who have some questions about the political process, it allows them to [learn about] the process by studying the behavior, speeches and decisions of younger public office holders.”

Majerus-Collins and Rose both said that for many young people, the obstacle to running for political office is that they do not know how. Majerus-Collins added that he hopes groups like YEO Network could also minimize the logistical obstacles for aspiring young politicians and provide them with support through the campaign process.

Rose suggested that campus groups — like the Sacred Heart College Democrats and College Republicans — can also give young people a space to explore possible political careers.

Mentor figures can jumpstart a political career as well, Cummings said. This is the case for her own life: After she took classes with Rose at Sacred Heart, he encouraged her to apply for an internship at the state capitol in Hartford. After graduating from law school, Cummings joined a financial board in Waterbury, before successfully running for alder.

“We need more Dr. Roses,” Cummings said.

In the last year and a half, a book drive Cummings organized has collected over 28,000 books for Waterbury children.

Contact michelle liu at michelle.liu@yale.edu .

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Discrimination comes mainly from peers, students report members, 14 percent cited University employees and 8 percent cited their residential college dean or master.

Students were also asked to describe the one or more places at Yale where they had been racially discriminated against: 60 percent of respondents who said they had been subject to discrimination said it had occurred in on-campus social settings, 45 percent identified their residential colleges and 42 percent identified off-campus social settings, including Greek life

climate From page 1 veys two stark realities: Students of color experience racial discrimination at much higher rates and their peers are usually responsible for those experiences. The most affected group is Black women: 58 percent said they have experienced racial discrimination while at Yale.

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spaces. Additionally, 40 percent reported experiencing discriminatory behavior in the classroom and 34 percent in extracurricular settings.

One female Black student gave the News permission to include her answer to an open-response section inviting respondents to elaborate on racially discriminatory experiences they have had at Yale.

“The most persistent form of discrimination I have felt at Yale was in a creative writing seminar last year, when any work that I or another black writer submitted that addressed race seemed to be quickly categorized by the professor as political or activist ‘art,’” she wrote. “I felt uncomfortable by the end of the semester with bringing in pieces that mentioned race or other social identities/issues at all.”

While 20 percent of all respondents said they have experienced racial discrimination while at Yale, students of color reported significantly higher rates: 40 percent said they have personally been racially discriminated against at Yale. Specifically, 54 percent of Black students said they have been racially discriminated against at Yale, as compared to 36 percent of East Asians, 33 percent of South Asians, 32 percent of American Indians or Alaska Natives, 28 percent of ArabAmericans and Middle Easterners and 27 percent of Hispanic students.

Still, 60 percent of students of color said they had not experienced any form of racial discrimination while at Yale.

Christian Conway ’18, who is Black, said he has not been subject to racial discrimination at Yale.

“I can only speak for myself, but in my time here I cannot say that I have experienced any sort of discrimination based on the color of my skin,” he said. “It’s entirely

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Students said changes to financial aid policy do not adequately address the divergent Yale experiences of wealthy students as opposed to those with high financial need. financial aid From page 1 mer job,” Peter Huang ’18 said.

“The reduction may allow students to work fewer hours during the summer, but students still have to work nevertheless to meet the cost of college.”

Huang added that being required to work over the summer will mean students may be restricted in the kinds of internships they can accept based on time constraints, or may not be able to take one at all.

Aviva Abusch ’18 said a $450 reduction was not enough to solve issues among students on financial aid. Rather, she said, it is the existence or nonexistence of the summer student contribution that makes the difference.

Student groups like A Leg Even, founded earlier this year, have sought to arrange for stipends for low-income students to pursue unpaid summer opportunities, arguing that the limitation contributes to a lack of access to resources for professional development for lower-income students. However, the changes announced on Monday have not been framed as a final solution; rather, Quinlan and Storlazzi emphasized repeatedly during Monday’s meeting that the reforms are still the beginning of an ongoing conver-

sation between students and administrators. Still, Storlazzi stated at the meeting that Yale does not have the resources to scrap the student contribution entirely. In interviews with the News, both Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway and University Provost Ben Polak did not address whether Yale could afford to fully eliminate the student summer income contribution. “[The policy changes] really won’t make a difference for students seeking unpaid positions over the summer, especially if they are high need,” said Katie Trimm ’18, who said she is a high-need student. “Unless the office is able to find a different way for students to cover the student income contribution, students who came to college with little or no money will be unable to work an unpaid internship without taking out loans to cover their costs.”

JT Flowers ’17 — who coauthored the YCC report — said that in particular, students who do not fall into the “highest need” category as defined by Yale’s Office of Financial Aid — those with a calculated parent contribution of $0 — may still have trouble financing their summers because they do not receive the greater reduction afforded to that subset of the student

body. This equates to around 300 of nearly 2,800 students on financial aid.

Rayan Alsemeiry ’19 said the reduction is helpful because it lightens the load for students who wish to take out loans to pay their summer student income contributions, but noted that even this burden should not exist. As it stands, Yale markets itself as a no-loans college in its financial aid and admissions materials to prospective students.

Most of the complaints surrounding the expected student contribution stem from the term-time requirement, which has not changed at all, Alsemeiry said.

Abusch said the announcement left many students on financial aid disappointed, as they were expecting solutions to problems that have been the subjects of widespread campus dialogue since last year.

“It’s not in any way going to help students who feel the burden of the student contribution get more out of their Yale experience,” Abusch said. “What was presented to us was an entirely inadequate solution. It was less than a baby step. It was maybe a Band-aid for a giant bleeding wound.”

Contact jon victor at jon.victor@yale.edu .

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possible something someone said might be of poor word choice but I don’t think that amounts to racial discrimination. It’s all about interpretation.”

Survey respondents also spoke of the impact the events of the past month-and-a-half have had on campus climate. In the survey and in follow-up interviews with the News, students expressed mixed opinions on the subject.

Some said recent events have fostered healthy discussion amongst students. Others said they have divided campus. Many said both.

Fish Stark ’17, who is Caucasian, said recent events have been a “time of unity” for students, demonstrated by massive participation in events like the March of Resilience.

Dasia Moore ’18, a Black student, said though the recent weeks have been emotionally tiring, they are also helping create a better Yale.

“I think that the recent events have really opened up a conversation that is long overdue, one that

recognizes the unequal ways in which students experience Yale,” she said. “The racial climate to me seems more present, but also more honest. As a freshman, I often felt suffocated and unable to understand, articulate and share with others the way race was impacting my time at Yale. Now, I feel I can breathe a little more. However emotionally exhausting sharing painful experiences may be, it is less tiring than silencing yourself.”

Conway said the campus community has become less welcoming to potentially controversial viewpoints, specifically citing Silliman College Associate Master Erika Christakis’ decision to not teach at Yale in the spring.

Duncan Tomlin ’16, a Caucasian student, said he has noticed conflicting mentalities on campus concerning the value of debate and engagement amongst students.

“There is a really big divide on campus, and it’s not something people are talking about,” Tomlin said. “Some people believe an idea or argument becomes stronger in

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the face of opposition, and some believe that an argument is stronger in the absence of opposition.”

Still, Lillie Lainoff ’18, who is Caucasian, said she is glad the student-led movement confronted hidden issues on campus, adding that feelings of division are inevitable components of such movements.

In response to the survey results, University President Peter Salovey told the News that Yale must continue working to foster a more inclusive environment on campus.

“This is a conversation about race, a conversation about gender and a conversation about various intersections of social identities. We need to always be thinking about these issues and always be open to ways to increase inclusion,” he said.

This is the first in a two-part series.

The second part will run on Friday.

Contact david shimer at david.shimer@yale.edu .

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“There are no renovations, no plans to change anything in the Bowl other than maintenance projects, which [the administration was] doing during the season, finishing seats and concrete.” Conn said. “We are looking for functional indoor recreational space, because teams practice outside of their competitive seasons and need venues to do that.”

Director of Athletics Tom Beckett confirmed that the Yale Bowl’s field will remain grass, but did not comment on the reason that the project is no longer being discussed.

University administrators are reevaluating the project and considering all possible options, Director of Athletics Development Alison Cole ’99 said. Cole declined to comment further.

Conn added that one possibility is adding a bubble roof to an already existing artificial turf field, such as Reese Stadium, Frank Field or Johnson Field. Nine athletes interviewed all said such an addition would significantly benefit their teams.

“The administration mentioned [the potential indoor facility addition] to me this year, but this is a potential project that has come up as a subject for the last five or six years,” women’s soccer head coach Rudy Meredith said. “It has definitely been on the list of something that would be an interest for all the coaches.”

Beckett said there is a continuous effort within the administration to determine the best solution to create an indoor practice facility for Yale’s teams. He recognized that the harsh conditions of New England winters make such a facility “necessary” because it is often impossible for students to practice outdoors.

Athletics projects at Yale are not funded by the University but instead by donors, Beckett said, which has been the policy for many years.

Meredith recognized that for a project such as this one, funding could come from multiple alumni given that the entire athletic department would benefit from additional indoor facilities, including club and intramural sports.

“The benefits of an indoor turf facility would be endless to our team,” women’s soccer forward Karina Kovalcik ’17 said. “We would be able to get more touches on the ball; we wouldn’t have to spend an hour a week on just commuting; we

could sleep more and it wouldn’t be as hard on our bodies as playing on the fifth-floor gym wooden floors.

We would have more space to work, and we could scrimmage full field.”

Softball player Francesca Casalino ’18 also drew attention to the benefits of an indoor turf facility, adding that the facility would bring Yale’s indoor playing areas up to par with those of other Ivy League institutions, such as Harvard and Penn.

Harvard Stadium was outfitted with a bubble roof in 2007 — just a year after upgrading to artificial turf — and since then all teams that play outdoors have had access to the indoor turf field between November and the spring, according to Harvard’s website. In 2011, Penn added a bubble roof to a schoolowned turf field other than its football field.

All nine athletes interviewed noted that the current indoor facility situation presents challenges for them during their offseason.

The Yale men’s lacrosse team, for example, often sees delayed starts to its season preparation because its practice and game field, Reese Stadium is blocked from sunlight

by Coxe Cage and can freeze when there is too much snow, attack and midfielder Michael Bonacci ’16 said.

The women’s lacrosse team sees similar problems. According to defender Flannery Carney ’16, the team practices outside at Reese during the late winter unless there is a snowstorm or the weather is below 10 degrees. She said that since her time at Yale, she has strained or pulled three different muscles due to the freezing temperatures at which they practice.

“I think having indoor facilities would be a huge benefit,” Bonacci said. “We would be able to have winter practices that focus on lacrosse and not on how cold we are.”

Teams do utilize Coxe Cage and facilities inside Payne Whitney Gymnasium during the winter, but they often need to compete for time inside these training spaces, multiple players said.

Priority for these facilities goes to teams that are in their competitive season over teams in their offseason, Casalino said. She added that in past years, the softball team has held morning workouts at Coxe Cage from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. because the Yale track and field team had priority in the afternoon.

“When the weather gets bad everyone wants to go inside, and

we have limited space for it,” Meredith said. “It is a struggle getting in practice time when we have limited space, so it is definitely a concern for the coaches.”

He added that the indoor facilities currently available are not optimal for the team. If the team wants to practice indoors, the only option is scrimmaging on the fifth-floor Payne Whitney Gymnasium wooden floors, Meredith said, which does not simulate a real game experience. The goalkeeper, for example, cannot dive because of the wood, making the team unable to practice with the goalkeeper during the winter.

To make up for the lack of facilities, many teams commute during the week to practice at other locations. The football, field hockey, women’s soccer and softball teams, for example, travel to indoor facilities in nearby towns for several days in the week.

The baseball team, meanwhile, has indoor batting cages within its stadium, Yale Field. Position player Harrison White ’17 said that the team also clears off the football practice field, which is adjacent to Yale Field and has artificial turf, to practice outside when there is snow on the ground.

“We are lucky enough to have two batting cages inside,” White said.

Although these facilities are used only by the baseball team, this year the softball team will have batting cages of its own due to a Yale fundraising competition that it recently won.

Each year, Yale Athletics gives roughly $12,000 of spending money to the team that raises the most money from alumni, position player Sydney Ginsberg ’18 said. The softball team is using this money — in addition to other funds that Beckett approved for the softball team, according to catcher Camille Weisenbach ’17 — to build two new batting cages on the fifth floor of Payne Whitney.

“The new batting cages are going to be extremely beneficial to us,” Ginsberg said. “They will provide us with access to a hitting facility right here on campus so we will no longer need to rely on the buses for transportation to a cage. The new cages will make our practice schedule much more flexible as a result.”

Connecticut had approximately 60 inches of snowfall during the winter of 2014–15.

Contact Daniela Brighenti at daniela.brighenti@yale.edu .

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“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” Jorge Luis Borges Argentinian Author

Libraries utilize Preservica

More recent grads turning to consulting, finance By jon victor and jay lee Staff reporter and contributing reporter

Yale Daily News

Yale’s new digital preservation system, Preservica, will change the way Yale cares for its digital files.

By finnegan schick staff reporter There are over 1 billion gigabytes worth of digital material across Yale’s library system, and the team of preservationists keeping it secure will see a major software upgrade in the spring.

Preservica, a United Kingdombased digital preservation company, will help library staff keep an eye on all of Yale’s digital files, preventing them from becoming corrupt and keeping the digital material organized through a specialized classification system. Until now, Yale University Library — the group of professional school libraries and smaller collections at Yale — did not have a centralized way to protect and organize digital material in its library system. At a lecture in Sterling Memorial Library Wednesday, Yale’s Digital Preservation Manager Euan Cochrane told a crowd of library staff how Preservica will change the way Yale cares for its digital files.

“The idea that [Preservica] is trustworthy is not trivial. Having this in place will allow us to be securer,” Cochrane said, scrolling through some of Yale’s digital files now on Preservica to demonstrate how the program works. “It’s just like a folder on a computer in many ways.”

Yale’s digital holdings span several libraries, including the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Yale Center for British Art, and come in two forms: “born digital” files that were created in a digital format, and material that was reformatted into a digital file. Using the new software, library staff will be able to access both kinds of files in one place, whereas

the current system is more scattered across the University. Digital files, like physical documents, are in danger of being damaged over time, Cochrane said.

According to Gabriela Redwine, the digital archivist at the Beinecke, digital preservation began at Yale in 1989. Since then, Yale’s libraries have acquired the laptops, CDs and floppy disks of famous authors. Yale’s digital libraries include everything from video games to 700 terabytes of video footage from Holocaust survivors’ testimonies. Since 2013, when Cochrane’s position was created, Yale has been looking for a better way to preserve its digital files, he said.

Preservica was selected because it is secure and can be changed to accommodate the particular needs of a curator. But if Yale University Library finds problems with the software, it can return the program within three months and not face any penalty.

Redwine said Preservica will help Yale’s libraries be better caretakers of digital material that is given into Yale’s trust.

“One of the most important things in my line of work … is stewardship, taking good care of the digital files that we’re responsible for,” Redwine said. “Preservica is going to allow us to be good stewards.”

Cochrane said that preserving digital information relies on having accurate data, functioning software and intact hardware. To ensure any digital item is completely safe from corruption or destruction, Cochrane recommended that it be stored on a hard drive, on tape and in a cloudstorage site like Amazon Cloud. Natural disasters have been known to

destroy the only existent copies of digital items, he added.

Cochrane gave one example of how a corrupted file can completely change its makeup. Projecting a photo of the Mona Lisa during his presentation, Cochrane showed how altering a single digit of the image’s code distorted the painting to an unrecognizable degree.

The new Preservica software will also automate much of the work currently done manually by library staff, Redwine said. The many steps involved in verifying a file will also be collapsed into a single step, she added. Implementation of Preservica began in late September 2015, and Cochrane said he expects to have the entire system in place by May 2016.

Preservica is not an online access system to view material, Redwine said. Instead, library preservation staff across the University will use Preservica.

“It’s more a system that’s working behind the scenes … connected to storage,” she said. “It’s not something the public will be using.”

While some collections in Yale University Library already have systems in place for digital preservation, other collections like those at the YCBA would be getting their first preservation systems with Preservica. Although YCBA has not confirmed that it will use Preservica, the Center is interested in using it, said Rachel Chatalbash, senior archivist at YCBA. The first Yale library, formed in Saybrook, contained approximately 40 volumes.

Contact finnegan schick at christopher.schick@yale.edu .

Yalies from the class of 2015 are increasingly pursuing risk-averse positions immediately after graduation, earning higher salaries and working for larger firms than their counterparts from the classes of 2013 and 2014, although the reason for this change remains up for debate.

Since 2013, the Office of Career Strategy has administered the “First Destination Survey” to recent Yale College graduates to keep track of what students are doing in the months following commencement. OCS sent out this year’s survey in May, and the survey closed on Nov. 30, six months later. In total, 1,126 members of the class of 2015 took the survey, for a 90.7 percent response rate.

This year’s data, which OCS provided to the News, suggests that high-paying fields like finance are on the up-andup, while the number of students doing research has declined markedly. For the first two years the survey was sent out, research topped the list of the most common activities pursued by undergraduates after graduation. However, this year it saw a drop, falling to the third most common employment function after consulting and finance.

Jeanine Dames, director of OCS and associate dean of Yale College, said the shift may be a result of people having more difficulty obtaining research grants, many of which come from the government. She pointed out that while the National Institutes of Health has historically been one of the top eight organizations employing the greatest number of Yale graduates six months out, it did not make the list this year.

Professors at the School of Medicine confirmed Dames’ theory. Daniel DiMaio, a professor at the School of Medicine, said budget constraints at the NIH have made research opportunities difficult, adding that this may have deterred some students from going into research.

David Schatz, another medical school professor, echoed DiMaio.

“It is certainly true that the low paylines and challenging fund situations at NIH have created an environment for research that has an elevated level of stress and anxiety, with more time having to be devoted to raising money to do the research rather than actually doing the research,” he said. “It could be a cumulative effect of that sort of atmosphere that has discouraged students from entering that career path.”

Whereas research dominated the career destination charts in 2013 and 2014, consulting and finance — which have historically ranked in the top four most common jobs for young alumni but have never taken the highest spot — emerged on top this year. Over the past three years, the number of first-year graduates working in finance roles almost doubled, from 8.8 percent to 15.7 percent.

In contrast, the number of alumni pursuing research decreased from 16.2 percent to 12.8 percent in the past year.

Recent alumni are also making more money at larger firms, the data shows: The most recent OCS survey found that 39.4 percent of respondents started with a salary over $70,000, a significant increase from the 26.3 percent reported two years ago. Data from OCS also shows that whereas 10.6 percent of the respondents in 2013 reported starting salaries of less than $20,000, the number plummeted to 2.3 percent in 2015.

This change may be attributed to a more favorable job market for recent grads, Dames said. The U.S. economy has been steadily improving over the past few years, which could have opened up more high-paying positions at large companies.

Indeed, more young alumni are working at large companies too: Whereas 44.5 percent of the respondents in 2013 said they worked in companies with over 500 employees, this number grew to 50.6 percent for the most recent class of graduates. Conversely, while 31.4 percent reported working in firms with less than 50 employees in 2013, this number dropped to 26.7 percent this year.

Still, Jason Abaluck, a professor at the School of Management, cautioned that attributing the changes to an improved economy may be overly simplistic.

“It’s lot more subtle than that,” Abaluck said. “I’m guessing that the relative wages in the finance sector are higher than in other sectors, which may explain the increase.”

In addition, more of the highest-paid recent grads are working in the technology industry than in the other two years the survey was administered. Among the highest-paid graduates with a starting salary of over $100,000, less than 25 percent work in the financial services industry, whereas a whopping almost 60 percent work in the technology sector. In 2013, these numbers were nearly flipped, as 54.8 percent worked in the financial sector and 32.3 percent worked in technology.

Interestingly, Dames said, the report mirrored the results published last month in the yearly summer activities survey, which details current students’ summer plans. The data from that survey showed that Yale students on the whole were pursuing more paid opportunities than unpaid internships in comparison to previous years — findings that are consistent with the First Destination Survey’s results that more recent graduates are finding paid jobs than in past years.

Also, in a shift from 2013 and 2014, Singapore and Israel were among the top countries of choice outside of the U.S. for the class of 2015. Typically, the United Kingdom, China, India and Germany have been on the list, but the last two did not make it this year. Dames said the high number of students moving to Singapore may be due to employment by Yale-NUS. This year’s First Destination Report is set to be published online later this week.

Contact jon victor at jon.victor@yale.edu and jay lee at jay.lee@yale.edu .

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No disciplinary action following two investigations investigations From page 1 men and women of color — were admitted on a first-come, firstserved basis. Still, as the evening continued, Holloway said, the party became crowded and admission became “restricted” and “subjective,” with hosts using “harsh language” with students seeking entry, according to student reports. Two students provided administrators with credible accounts of overhearing, or being told by either one or two SAE members, that admission was for “white girls only.” But no one else interviewed by the administration reported hearing the statement, and SAE members interviewed during the investigation also denied the allegation, according to Holloway’s email.

The SAE investigation came in response to a report made by Sofia Petros-Gouin, a Columbia University freshman who visited Yale that Friday and told the News in November that she witnessed a white fraternity member bar a group of predominantly black and Hispanic girls from entering the party. According to Petros-Gouin, a brother put his hand out in front of the group and said, “No, we’re only looking for white girls.” PetrosGouin said the brother then singled out a blonde female, saying, “That’s what we’re looking for,” before allowing a group of white girls to enter. The next day, Neema Githere ’18 posted a status on Facebook condemning SAE for admitting party guests on a “white girls only” basis and citing a similar encounter that she said she and her friends had at SAE the year before. The status has gained 1,687 likes and has been shared 295 times since it was posted, setting off a campuswide conversation about SAE and the treatment of women of color on campus more generally.

Though the fraternity and its individual members will not face any disciplinary charges, Holloway said the investigation did find that SAE was responsible for creating a “chaotic environment” and that members sometimes behaved “disrespectfully and aggressively” toward students hoping to enter the party.

This behavior, Holloway said, does not meet community standards of civic engagement and is especially problematic given the sanctions already placed on the fraternity as the result of an initiation ceremony held in February

2014 that violated the University’s sexual misconduct policies.

“Strictly speaking, SAE did not violate the terms of those sanctions, which banned the fraternity from hosting activities on campus, drawing on University resources and using the SAE name in connection with Yale University for two years,” Holloway wrote. “But I am extremely disappointed that the chapter has given me cause to write to the community a second time.”

Howard said fraternity leadership, members and staff from SAE’s national headquarters were fully cooperative with the investigation as soon as concerns were raised hours after the party.

“In my interviews … I found the vast majority of students highly credible — very much including the SAE members that I spoke with and the people voicing concerns,” Howard said in an email to the News. “I found most people truthful, and honestly seeking to help.”

This moment provides us with a chance to create a more constructive, inclusive and respectful climate.

Jonathan Holloway Dean, Yale College Petros-Gouin and Githere did not return requests for comment Wednesday night.

Yale SAE President Grant Mueller ’17 told the News that the administration’s investigation found that several SAE brothers had responded “too aggressively” to the crowds of people outside the party. Mueller emphasized that people had been refused entry to the party because it was already overcrowded, and he said the brothers’ behavior at the door was in response to people who would not leave the doorstep. This led to a tense atmosphere, Mueller said. The doormen were rude but not racist, he added, and while he acknowledged that there was a chaotic environment, he said there is a difference between creating that environment and mishandling it.

“I’ll freely admit that there were probably several inter-

actions that night at our door which were rude,” Mueller said.

“We understand that’s a fault of our door policy, and we’re glad Dean Holloway brought it to our attention so we can fix it and make it better.”

Mueller said he and Howard communicated extensively throughout the course of the monthlong investigation, adding that Howard’s questions during the inquiry ranged from the specifics of SAE’s door policy to broader questions about Mueller’s personal experiences with the fraternity.

The three SAE members who acted as doormen that night, as well as numerous other party attendees and brothers, were also contacted, Mueller said.

One of the doormen, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the issue, said he met with Howard just before Thanksgiving break and recounted the entire night. He also answered Howard’s questions regarding the general nature of SAE’s parties and the structure of the fraternity.

Mueller said that in addition to improving its door policy, the Yale chapter of SAE has created a new position of diversity chair. Luc Ryan-Schreiber ’17, the inaugural diversity chair, said his responsibilities will include reaching out to Yale’s cultural centers and Office of LGBTQ Resources to forge relationships, as well as serving as a point of contact within the fraternity for anyone who may have concerns about SAE or Greek life in general.

The SAE national chapter, which conducted its own separate investigation, has also “not been able to validate” the allegations made against Yale’s chapter of the fraternity, according to SAE Associate Executive Director of Communications Brandon Weghorst. Weghorst said that while the organization found no conclusive evidence of improper behavior, it has implemented measures to ensure that brothers are following proper codes of conduct, including additional diversity and inclusion education as well as health and safety training.

But Akinyi Ochieng ’15 — who commented on Githere’s Facebook post sharing an instance of discrimination she said she experienced two years ago at SAE — said the issues surrounding SAE are not limited to the fraternity. They reflect atti-

tudes that are present in varying degrees within many other Greek organizations and student groups on campus, she said, and it is important to address not only entry procedures but also dynamics within parties hosted by all student groups.

“I think all student groups, especially those that host social events, can reflect on what an ideal party looks like to them and create strategies to facilitate those types of environments,” Ochieng said. “I found the immediate denial of the ‘white girls only’ statement by the SAE president to be both hasty and dismissive without the necessary due diligence performed.”

THE BUCKLEY INVESTIGATION

Regarding the investigation into the behavior of student protesters at the Buckley conference, Holloway wrote that student demonstrators appeared to have acted according to the University’s guidelines for protest and free expression, which Howard read aloud to protesters who gathered outside at the end of the conference on Nov. 6. No one provided a direct account of students spitting on attendees to administrators, and no police reports were filed on this charge or as a result of the conference and subsequent developments, the email said.

Holloway’s email also referred to Edward Columbia ’18, the student who interrupted speaker Greg Lukianoff during the conference, although Holloway did not identify Columbia by name.

Columbia entered the lecture hall during Lukianoff’s speech and began putting up signs that read “Stand with your sisters of color. Now, here. Always, everywhere,” and shouted at Lukianoff after the speaker made a joke that Columbia deemed offensive. Columbia was removed by a Yale police officer and will face consequences for violating Yale’s policy on free expression.

Columbia told the News after the conference that YPD acted appropriately. According to Holloway’s email, “The event’s hosts were satisfied by the responsiveness of the Yale Police.”

But Buckley Program President Zach Young ’17 told the News that he and other student leaders of the organization were never contacted by the YCDO during the investigation. Young said he was not even aware that the investigation was taking

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place. Columbia also said he was not contacted during the course of the investigation and was unaware of it until Holloway’s email was released.

“This is not an acceptable investigation if we were not contacted. It’s problematic from a procedural point of view, since we have a different understanding of what took place,” Young said, adding that if he had been contacted by Holloway’s office, he could have given the administration the name of a student who told Young that he was spat on. “We also did not ask for an investigation.”

Misael Cabrera ’17, who said he was spat on, told the News that he was also unaware of an active investigation and was not contacted by Holloway or other administrators.

Two days after the conference took place, Mitchell Rose Bear Don’t Walk ’16, one of the lead protesters at the conference, told the News that a protestor had indeed spat on one of the Buckley fellows. She called it “disgraceful” and emphasized that it did not embody the message protesters were trying to convey.

Holloway could not be reached for comment Tuesday night. Howard did not address a question from the News about the Buckley investigation.

Looking forward, Holloway wrote in his email, he hopes to use these occasions as an opportunity to build a better and more inclusive climate on campus. Holloway said he has asked Howard to work with SAE to “develop a protocol for managing crowds and hosting off-campus events safely and respectfully.” A new dean of student affairs — who will soon be announced — will collaborate with Howard to provide training and guidance to all student groups seeking to host events and protest peacefully. Finally, Holloway said he will ask students and residential college administrators for suggestions about parties and spaces for socializing that are welcoming to all Yale College students.

“This moment provides us with a chance to create a more constructive, inclusive and respectful climate, and I am eager to begin that work,” Holloway wrote.

Contact monica wang at monica.wang@yale.edu and joey ye at shuaijiang.ye@yale.edu .

Short-term units come to city housing From page 1 The new buildings will also help professionals in the city adjust to becoming permanent New Haven residents, Josef Feldman said. He added that new residents who are not familiar enough with the city to purchase a home will be able to rent from MOD Equities as they are gradually introduced to life in the Elm City.

“This will be a perfectly transitional building for many,” Josef Feldman said. “It will be a gateway building into a normal apartment in the neighborhood.”

The new complex will also aim to appeal to Alexion professionals who will move to the city in January when the company relocates to New Haven, Josef Feldman added.

The company will bring over 1,000 full-time employees and expects to grow its workforce in the coming years, Alexion Corporate Communications Director Kim Diamond said in a November email.

The complex — located blocks away from Yale, Yale-New Haven Hospital and Alexion’s new headquarters at 100 College St. — is ideal for young professionals looking to bike and walk to work, said Downtown Alder Abigail Roth, whose Ward encompasses the new building. She added that downtown has become home to an increasing number of young professionals who bike or walk to work.

Statistics gathered by DataHaven — a data analytics nonprofit studying the city — reflect Roth’s observation. Around 78 percent of the Downtown population is aged 18–34, according to DataHaven Executive Director Mark Abraham. Abraham added that two-thirds of the 5,000 workers in the immediate downtown area bike or walk to work everyday.

Once completed, the complex’s ground floor will house a coffee shop with apartment units sited on the upper floors, Josef Feldman said.

New Haven architecture firm Svigals + Partners is designing the building.

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“Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.” josh peck american actor

New Haven seventh in misery ranking By amy cheng contributing reporter Despite laying claim to the best pizza, burgers and donuts on the East Coast, the Elm City ranked seventh in a poll of Connecticut’s most miserable cities.

RoadSnacks, an “infotainment” website that critiques cities across the country using data analytics, ranked 100 Connecticut cities based on their level of unhappiness in a report released Nov. 29. Nick James, the RoadSnacks analyst who compiled the report, said his calculations were based on eight criteria: average commute times, employment rates, cost of living, crime rates, number of sunny days per year, percentage of married couples, percentage of homeowners and percentage of residents with a college degree. Although Bridgeport stole the show with its first-place ranking, the data — collected from sources as wideranging as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Twitter — placed New Haven within the top 10, alongside Hartford and Waterbury, which were ranked second and fifth, respectively.

Unsurprisingly, members of the New Haven community contest the city’s inclusion in the ranking. “[The ranking] is really tongue-in-cheek, [with] some facts and some fiction,” said Barbara Malmberg, marketing director for the Greater New Haven Convention and Visitor Bureau.

“It’s more like what you would say to someone in a bar on a Friday night.”

Malmberg said she doubts RoadSnacks’ ranking will dim touristic interest in New Haven.

She added that the criteria used to rank cities are misleading and unscientific because they do not consider New Haven’s demographics. As a college town with a large transient population,

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there will inevitably be a low percentage of married couples and homeowners, she said.

But New Haven’s performance in other areas is harder to defend.

Despite having a population of just 129,895 people, New Haven had more than 6,000 property crimes and 16 homicides in 2013, the year with the most up-todate FBI crime data.

Chaihyun Kim ’19, who grew up in nearby Westport, said she has always been aware of the high crime rates in New Haven and the stigma associated with living in the city.

“There is such a big socioeconomic difference between neighboring towns in Connecticut,” she said.

Kim expressed reservations

about how much RoadSnacks’ ranking reflects the actual living experience of New Haven residents.

Though measures like unemployment and crime rates are likely to make life more difficult for people, Kim said, criteria such as marriage rates and the number of sunny days are unlikely to have a strong effect on happiness.

But Malmberg said Yale’s presence in the city has softened the impact of the fluctuating tourism industry across Connecticut.

“I think the fact that it looks like Hogwarts has some appeal,” she said.

James, who is no stranger to scrutiny from residents of the cities he ranks on his website, said his article has not received much

of a response from readers. He did acknowledge that the bulk of the complaints he gets about his rankings stem from the fact that he does not and has never lived in many of these cities he ranks.

Weston was named the happiest city in Connecticut.

Contact amy cheng at xiaomeng.cheng@yale.edu .

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“You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.”

Bob knight Former COllege Basketball coach

Elis fall to Fighting Illini m. basketball From page 10 and some locker room regrouping, the Bulldogs fought back and took a 37–35 lead thanks to a layup from guard Nick Victor ’16 at the 16:20 mark of the second half.

The two teams traded baskets during a back-and-forth stretch that included 11 consecutive Illinois points from Nunn, though the Fighting Illini secured the lead for good following a three-pointer from the high-scoring guard with 8:24 left to play. “[Illinois] played well down the stretch and we made some mistakes,” Montague said. “It’s good to get that late game experience though.”

Although Illinois never relented its lead, Yale remained within striking distance during the final minutes of the game. The Bulldogs continued to crash the boards, as they finished with a 48–25 overall advantage that helped neutralize the team’s season-high number of turnovers. Forward Brandon Sherrod ’16 led all players with a career-high 14 rebounds, while Sears added nine and Victor contributed eight.

The Fighting Illini relied on Hill and Nunn, who were the only two Illinois players to score over the final 7:06 of action for the team’s final 13 points.

A three-pointer from point guard Makai Mason ’18 with two seconds remaining in the game brought the Bulldogs within two, though Nunn knocked down a pair of free throws immediately after to cap off his game-high 28 points and secure the 69–65 Fighting Illini victory.

Mason scored 11 points in the second half to finish with 15 points after a quiet start. Sears scored 17 points in the second half to finish the game with 21 points, including a 7–10 shooting mark from the field.

“I’m feeling really good about my shooting,” Sears said. “The time off from being sick gave me a chance to watch a game and practices from the sideline, giving me an idea for the best opportunities to make my shots.”

The Bulldogs shot 43.1 percent from the field, better than Illinois’ 40.0 percent — but the 23–5 turnover margin ultimately proved decisive.

The score varied drastically from the last meeting between the Elis and the Fighting Illini. Back in 2010, the then-No. 19 Illinois squad defeated Yale 73–47.

The Bulldogs play another high-profile game on Sunday, when they face Southern California in Los Angeles. Tipoff is scheduled for 4 p.m.

Bulldogs caught in Red Storm w. basketball From page 10 East second-team selection last season, Grant hit 64 percent of her shots in the final period.

“She’s a great player and it takes a focused and intense defensive effort each time out to stop her,” Sarju said. “We went toe-to-toe defensively too frequently and got beat, and our help-side defense was not the presence it needed to be. Drives to the basket by more than just [Grant] were a problem for us tonight.”

Subpar shooting and a high turnover rate also hurt the Bulldogs. Although Simpson and Sarju combined for 38 points, their efforts were not enough, as four Red Storm players were able to hit double digits in points.

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Point guard Makai Mason ’18 scored 15 points, but also committed five turnovers.

of its field goals, compared to just 37.9 percent for the Bulldogs.

Although Yale’s turnover rate has dropped from a record-high of 29 against Manhattan a week ago, the total of 19 still presented problems for the team, as St. John’s was able to score 16 points off of those giveaways.

“We just really needed to focus on getting back to playing our game at our own pace in order to execute on offense and make stops on the defensive end,” Simpson said.

Yale will next play Stony Brook at home on Saturday. The game is slated to tip off at 2 p.m.

Daniela Brighenti contributed reporting.

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Guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 scored 18 points in her return from an injury.

Breaking down Yale’s 5–4 start analysis From page 10

Embracing their roles

Mason has seamlessly stepped into the point guard position.

Many expected increased playing time and scoring output in Mason’s encore performance following a strong freshman year as a reserve, but few could have predicted that there would be little, if any, drop off from Javier Duren ’15. Mason has taken over for the graduated first team AllIvy point guard, who averaged 14.0 points per game last season.

Mason leads this year’s Bulldogs in scoring with 16.6 points per game, good enough for third in the Ivy League.

As for Sears, he has managed to maintain the sort of production that earned him Player of the Year honors a season ago. The Plainfield, New Jersey native is averaging 16.3 points per game, despite a pair

of games in which he was not at 100 percent due to a sinus infection. In addition, he has grabbed 6.8 rebounds per game on top of more than two blocked shots a contest. While Sears has not yet had to consistently take over games for the Bulldogs, his importance to the team was perhaps most well-illuminated in a game he missed. Without Sears, due to the aforementioned sinus infection, Yale turned in its most disappointing performance of the season, an 88–54 loss to Albany. No matter the play of Mason and Yale’s complementary pieces, Sears will be central to however far the Bulldogs can go.

Beyond the play of Yale’s two leading scorers, Victor has proven to be a key spark plug for the team. Victor has repeatedly made the types of hustle plays that can swing the momentum of a game, such as blocking shots

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in transition and grabbing tough rebounds in traffic. While Victor is only averaging 6.1 points per game, he has made his presence felt in other areas, including 1.3 blocks per game and a teamleading 7.8 rebounds per game.

Victor has also served as a go-to lockdown perimeter defender for the Elis.

Production off the bench

One area of the concern through the first nine games has been the bench production for the Bulldogs. Jones has chiefly relied upon forward Sam Downey ’17, guard Anthony Dallier ’17 and guard Khaliq Ghani ’16 to provide a lift off the bench, while forwards Eric Anderson ’18 and Blake Reynolds ’19 have also earned some significant minutes. Thus far, the offensive production has been limited, as Yale’s reserves have contributed 13.2 points per game,

vide go-to boost off the bench, Yale could stand to benefit significantly from such a contributor. This will prove especially true when the Bulldogs move into Ancient Eight play, known for its demanding slate of backto-back contests.

while its opponents’ benches have added 18.4 points per contest. Downey leads the reserves in scoring with 5.4 points per game, though that statistic is partially inflated by his seasonhigh 16-point performance in a start against Bryant.

In Yale’s close 34–31 first half against Vermont last Saturday, the Bulldog starters combined for all but 20 of the possible 100 minutes. With that half being one of Yale’s most competitive periods of basketball this season, it could serve as a good indication of how Jones might coach his team come crunch time in Ivy contests.

There is time remaining for a more potent threat to develop off the bench — guard Khaliq Ghani ’16 provided a crucial spark on multiple occasions late in last year’s Ivy League schedule, for instance. However, with Mason assuming his starting role and no longer able to pro-

If there are such things as good problems to have, the absence of a competitive win might be one. The average margin of victory in the team’s five wins this year is 20.8 points.

However, the Bulldogs have fallen short in their two closest contests of the season, a twopoint loss to SMU and Wednesday’s 69–65 defeat at the hands of Illinois.

Part of the appeal of the nonconference portion of the schedule for coaches is the ability to see how one’s team responds

to intense, competitive games.

Last season, the Bulldogs played seven games against Ivy League opponents within six points. As such, wire-to-wire games prior to the beginning of conference play might can provide valuable experience for a team that graduated four key contributors — Duren, guard Armani Cotton ’15, forward Matt Townsend ’15 and captain and forward Greg Kelley ’15.

While blowout victories are certainly a positive, Jones noted after an 18-point win against Vermont that not all wins will be by such a wide margin. So although it is no definite indicator of future performance, the Bulldogs would likely be bolstered by winning narrowly before Ancient Eight play begins.

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Thursday, December 10 6:30 PM Angels on Art Tour: Who We Were There and What We Are Now. Explore the diversity of the art gallery’s collection through the eyes of the gallery guides, undergraduate students from a variety of disciplines. These lively conversations address a range of topics and will inspire visitors to see the collection in new ways. This talk will be led by Henry Bradley ’17 and will explore the way artists across cultures think about history, tragedy and pain.

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7:30 PM New Music for Orchestra. The Yale Philharmonia plays new orchestral pieces by students in the School of Music’s composition program. Woolsey Hall (500 College St.).

Friday, December 11 11:30 AM Art Book Fair, “Odds and Ends.” Books by artists and art-book makers will be on display and for sale. The fair includes books from small independent publishers who focus on art, architecture, photography and design; rare and limited-edition books and zines printed in short runs and showcasing a range of publishing endeavors; and book works by students from the Yale School of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.

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7:30 PM Treasures from the Yale Film Archive: “Within Our Gates.” The oldest known surviving film made by an AfricanAmerican director, “Within Our Gates” tells the story of Sylvia Landry (Evelyn Preer), a young African-American woman from the South who heads north to raise money for a rural school for black children. The film will be accompanied by renowned silent film composer and performer Donald Sosin, performing a score written for the film. Nicholas Forster, a Ph.D. candidate in African American Studies and Film and Media Studies at Yale, will introduce the film. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Aud.

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Dick Jauron ’73 Eli Enshrined in Hall of Fame The legendary Yale running back was inducted into the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday night. A three-time first-team All-Ivy star, Jauron went on to a successful NFL playing and coaching career that spanned over 30 years.

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Turnover woes plague Bulldogs men’s basketball

Early season takeaways

By JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s basketball team is only nine games into the season, but with convincing wins against quality teams such as Lehigh and Vermont, and impressive moments against No. 19 SMU, No. 8 Duke and Illinois, the Bulldogs appear on track to fulfill preseason hype.

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Forward Justin Sears ’16 scored a team-high 21 points and also added nine rebounds for the Bulldogs.

By JACOB MITCHELL STAFF REPORTER The Yale men’s basketball team overcame a sloppy first half and 23 turnovers in total to keep Wednesday night’s game against Illinois competitive until the very end, but the Bulldogs eventually fell 69–65 in Champaign.

The Fighting Illini (5–5, 0–0 Big 10) scored 25 points off of Eli turnovers and relied on guards Malcolm Hill and Kendrick Nunn down the stretch to fend off the Bulldogs (5–4, 0–0 Ivy).

“Turnovers really killed us,

especially in the first half,” captain and shooting guard Jack Montague ’16 said. “We weren’t playing our brand of basketball, and we were forcing the issue on some passes. However, even with that we still should have pulled out a win.”

In Yale’s game against Vermont on Saturday, the Bulldogs accumulated a then-season-high 20 turnovers. Although the mistakes against the Catamounts were a concern for head coach James Jones, he acknowledged that the team had not struggled with turnovers up until that point.

However, Yale, which now averages 14.6 giveaways, racked up 13 turnovers in the first half alone against Illinois. Forward Justin Sears ’16, who registered his first double-double with 17 points and 10 rebounds of the season on Saturday, was held to just four points in the opening period, as Yale struggled to find its rhythm. Forward Sam Downey ’17 paced the Elis with seven points in the first half, as no Yale starter scored more than five points.

The Fighting Illini built upon 10 points apiece from Hill and Nunn to take a 33–25 halftime

advantage. Illinois shot 39.4 percent from the field during the half, which was a minute increase from Yale’s 39.3 percent shooting clip. “[I] told the team [at halftime] we couldn’t play [any] worse and we were only down eight and still in the game,” Jones said.

Despite the numerous giveaways, Yale dominated on the glass, outrebounding Illinois 23–12 over the first 20 minutes, including a 7–3 edge in offensive rebounds.

Following the halftime break see m. basketball page 8

For the first time in program history, head coach James Jones’ Bulldogs (5–4, 0–0 Ivy) were named the favorites to win the Ivy League championship in the preseason media poll. With returning Ivy League Player of the Year, forward Justin Sears ’16, back for his senior season, and with captain and guard Jack Montague ’16, forward Brandon Sherrod ’16, guard Nick Victor ’16 and point guard Makai Mason ’18 pegged as the remaining starters, the Elis had high expectations.

Sears averaged 14.3 points per game last season, while Montague led the Ivy League in three-point shooting with a 43.5 percent clip from deep.

Sherrod, returning from a year abroad with the worldrenowned Whiffenpoofs, was set to provide a much-needed

presence down low while Victor looked to return to form as a perimeter defender and explosive guard after an injury-riddled campaign last year. Perhaps most intriguing was the role of Mason, as the sophomore’s ability to step in at the point guard position seemed critical to any championship hopes for the Elis.

Although this year’s Bulldogs have now lost four contests, the quality of competition in those losses cannot be overlooked. Yale has fallen to SMU, Duke, Albany and Illinois, which currently sport a combined record of 26–9 this season. The loss to Albany, the defending America East Tournament champion, occurred without Sears in the lineup, while Duke and SMU are both currently ranked among the top 25 teams in the nation. In fact, SMU, which defeated Yale by only two points, is one of only 10 Division I programs still undefeated in the 2015– 16 season. And while Illinois, at 5–5, is not having a particularly strong season, the Big 10 school still possesses a talentladen roster.

With the Ivy League season now six games and just over a month away, three factors have stood out thus far during Yale’s nonconference schedule. see analysis page 8

Fourth-quarter run ends Yale upset bid

By LISA QIAN CONTRIBUTING REPORTER In a game that included n u m e ro u s m o m e n t u m shifts, it was the last that proved too much for the Yale women’s basketball team to handle Wednesday night in a 69–56 loss at St. John’s.

women’s basketball Although the Bulldogs (6–5, 0–0 Ivy) never held the lead after midway through the second quarter, they brought the deficit to just three points with six minutes remaining in the contest.

But St. John’s (6–1, 0–0 Big East), a team that has made the NCAA Tournament in five of the last six seasons, rattled off a 17–3 run in the final frame to put the game out of reach and send the Elis home with an away record of 0–3.

“We did a good job fighting back in the third [quarter] but had some crucial missed rotations and still let them get to the basket too much,” guard Nyasha Sarju ’16 said.

“Against a good team like St. John’s, we can’t have the lulls we had tonight if we want to get a win.”

Sarju, who missed the Bulldogs’ game on Sunday with a sprained ankle, returned to the court and made an immediate contribution with 18 points and six rebounds. The leading Bulldog scorer in the game was guard Tamara Simpson

’18, who posted 20 points just four days after scoring a career-high 22 points against Wagner.

Simpson’s offensive success could be seen right from the start, as 10 of her points came in the first nine minutes to give Yale an early first-quarter lead.

In the second quarter, however, the Red Storm came back and earned the upper hand, outscoring Yale 16–4, including a 12-point run that lasted much of the quarter, to take a 31–21 lead at halftime. Yale was able to score on just one of 11 shots from the field while turning the ball over a total of nine times.

“We came out strong but failed to sustain that momentum in the second quarter,” captain and guard Whitney Wyckoff ’16 said.

“We had lulls that we had trouble overcoming.”

The Bulldogs were able to cut their deficit to seven by the end of a high-scoring third quarter, reducing the St. John’s lead to as little as two points during one moment. That comeback was short-lived, however, as the Big Storm responded with a dominant fourth quarter.

The 17–3 St. John’s run near the end of the game included nine points from St. John’s guard Danaejah Grant, who finished with a gamehigh 23 points. An All-Big see w. basketball page 8

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The Bulldogs were outscored 19–13 in the fourth quarter, when St. John’s put the game out of reach.

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THE REBOUNDING MARGIN, IN FAVOR OF THE YALE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM, AGAINST ILLINOIS ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. An identical number of turnovers, however, cost the Bulldogs in their 69–65 loss to the Fighting Illini.